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Russian Inflation Watch - Hookers Hike Rates Up To 100% Amid Crashing Currency
On the (high) heels of sanctions and oil-price-collapses, the plunge in the Russian Ruble is even impacting the oldest profession in the world as brothels begin pegging transaction fees to the dollar. As LiveLeak so eloquently reports, the cost of getting laid in Russia just became more expensive - thanks Obama!! An escort agency in the northern port of Murmansk has raised rates 30-40% (a friend told us) from the $130-per-two-hours "spending time with an employee" but it is workers in The Urals that are really suffering where sex workers have raised rates between 50 and 100%. It appears someone has crossed a red line...
Getting laid in Russia just became more expensive.
The crime of buying sexual services is becoming more expensive in Russia as prostitutes increase their rates to offset the free-falling ruble, regional media reported.
An escort agency in the northern port of Murmansk has raised prices by 30 to 40 percent, news website Flashnord.com reported.
The pre-crisis price was 3,000 to 7,000 rubles ($55 to $130 at Thursday's rate) per two hours of "spending time with an agency employee," Flashnord said Tuesday.
The price will likely be pegged to the dollar in the future, the website said. Though prostitution is illegal in Russia, the report gave the name of the alleged brothel, Madlen.
A representative of another "escort salon" named World of Sex in Murmansk was cited as saying that the enterprise "is trying to keep prices as they were, but life's getting more expensive, and girls can't work at a loss."
In the Urals, sex workers have raised prices by between 50 and 100 percent, Uralpolit.ru said Wednesday, citing unnamed clients of prostitutes.
In addition to the falling ruble, the sex tariff inflation may have been boosted by an influx of sex workers fleeing war-torn Ukraine, the website said. The new competition is forcing local sex workers to hike their rates in order to pay their bills, the report said.
The ruble has lost almost 40 percent of its value against the dollar since the start of the year due to an economic downturn.
Sex workers make up about 1 million of Russia's 142 million population, Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov said last year.
Prostitution is punishable with a fine of up to 2,000 rubles ($37) in Russia. Pimps face up to a decade behind bars.
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Perhaps it is time to unleash QE5...
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Amen to that
Amen to that
Now lets say I'm looking for 20 min, then is the price prorated down to $21.66. If so it seems fair to me.
If not can I sublease her time remaining to others? Whats that called? Oh yeah... Abertrage
Ukraine girls really knock me out
they leave the west behind.
Moscow girls make me scream and shout
and Jojo's always on my my my my my my my my mind.
Someone said that once.
A market ripe for crack expansion.
Hmmm, at those prices, I wonder why Russian girls bother coming to work in Asia.
But Russia is winning, according to ZeroHedge.
Hilarious, ain't it?!
You're not paying them to stay, you're paying them to go away.
They better not unionize and strike otherwise this will happen!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-05/greek-government-threatens-striking-seamen-arrests-unless-they-resume-work
This sort of tell reveals the country and its core values.
Sane, modern, industrialised nations, businesses don't raise prices into a downfall.
This is what Asian backwater businessmen do - business is slow, so they raise the price to ''make up for the lost business''.
Their thinking is:
""I have fewer customers, thus I must increase prices to keep my revenues the same.""
They assume that people don't have options, or will do without, or will go elsewhere.
Such a mindset is a sign of intense stupidity.
All of Russia is beginning to feel the results of pariah state isolation.
The ruble has gone from 33 rubles to nearly 55 rubles to the dollar in less than a year.
I can't wait for 2015!
Which Russian city are y'all Lee Harvey Oswalds emigrating to in Russia?
Novosibirsk?
Yakutsk?
Volgograd?
Remember, they're sticklers on that mandatory 2 years of military service (unless you're prepared to bribe a corrupt and under-paid government employee....).
Winter is the perfect time to emigrate, so git packin'!!
I remember it was about $30 a pop fifteen years ago in Russia. Fucking Inflation!
A bar of soap in Subik Bay once upon a time...
Or this for $10?
http://itsguycode.com/guycode/357-hey-marine-ever-play-the-game-smiles-i...